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The French Agricultural Society of the department of thé High Garonne has lately offéred præmia forthe be anſwers to theſe two queſtions— What are the diferent ſorts'6f vines fit for cultúré in that territory 2°” « What is.the beſt method of managing vines.

Fhere are, in Moitgomeryſhirè, àbout 2 50,000 acres, of land reckoned to be, at preſent, unf for tillage, büt which might be very profitably planted with wood.

A correſpondent’ enguires whether there be not Various ſorts of graſſes indigenous to Britain and Iréland which might be adopted into culture with our other graſſesſcalled! artificial, wich'inSnite advantage to the country?

Thé county ot Norfolk. ion an average, exporféd from its four ports, on each of the years: 1792-3;and'4,-the quantity of 63,946 quarters of wheat, and 37,135 quarters of flour; retaining at thé'ſame’time, abundance for its own huſbandry. Tte drill-huſbandry lias been found“ tó favour the increaſe of agricultural population,

Ai Little Broughton, near Cockermouth, in Cúmberland 1662 grains of fine wheat were reaped from 40 ſtalks which ſhot, all; up from a ſingle grains

The Fulſe: or Cormraon Acacia, a native of North America, of which there are ſome ſew plants in different parts of England, produces leaves ſo highly grateful tolcattle; that ſome have doubted, whether this plant ought not to be extenfively cultivated for agricultural purpoſes.

Thè” province of Leinfler ſometimes written Lemfſter, was, as 2PPears from our old ballads; ancic nitly very famous for thé’ woóôI whichit ſupplied to the:-Engliſh manufa@uters, There iS now gteat reaſon ro expe that under the patriotic encolragfement of the Iriſh Truftécs and the Dublin Society, not: that province only, but a very great part of the reſt of Tre- land, may ſpeedily become more fous for wool, than any other part of the woild. The‘Spaniſh breed of ſheep thrive: even'in Denmark and Swe den. But, the beſt judges in theſe caíes, are of opinion that, from thenuild- nels of the climate and‘other local advantágés, they might ſucceed in Ireland, even better than in Spain itſelf.

The county of Pembroke has,‘in the courſe of theſe laſt fifteen Years» derived very great benefit from the improvement of watering the weadows, Thé climate is ſo much milder thay that of Middléſex, that che inhabitants of Pembrokeſhire frequently read in the newſpapers of ſkaiting in St. James’s Park, when they themſelves enjoy weather perfétly mild; 0pén,„and inéenacing Do ſeverity.

The prices of hops begin to riſe lightly in the market, as the ſeaſon ad- vances, Bags are now ſold’at from 31. 105, tó 5l-—Pockcfts at from LA rA to 81.:

Of all the varieties of ſheepknown in this country, there is none that fattens or grows(0 faſt, upon a changé from a coarle and ſcanty to a tender and luxuriant, as the ſmall black-facéd Scottiſh race known in tlie South of Scôtländ by the name of Short Sheep in diſtin&ion from the Cheviot breed called: Long Sheep,

Tt is a certain fat, that the and occupied in highways, and even in pariſh roads ard others ſill more private, though commonly regarded as waſte, will be found when the facilities which it gives to farm labour, are fairly eſtimáted, to afford a higher profit tor it per acre, than even any gar- den-ground in theſe kingdom.

Should the preſent open weather continue; the'wheäts ar luxuriaut at an early period în ſpring. E 7:

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